The Alaska House of Representatives on Wednesday tweaked a bill that would create a state Marijuana Control Board, adding an amendment that would prohibit anyone with a felony conviction in the last five years from getting a license for a commercial marijuana grow, testing facility, manufacturing facility or retail store.
On Tuesday, the House passed the bill 25-15, but majority leader Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, held the bill for reconsideration.
Millett said before the floor session Wednesday that some Republican members had wanted to revisit an amendment shot down the day before. The failed amendment had prohibited people with recent felony convictions and misdemeanor drug convictions from owning marijuana establishments.
